Nail stripper



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Patented Apr. 29, 1924.

ilfiii'i fi ST 'i' E S LIONEL E. KINGHAM, O'F MAYFIELD, CALIFORNIA.

NAIL STRIPPER.

Application filed February 3, 1923.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LIONEL E. KINGHAM, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Mayfield, in the county of Santa Clara and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Nail Strippers, of which the following is a specification.

In shingling roofs it is customary for the shingler to place a number of nails in his mouth and work them around in such a manner as to cause the points to project outwardly so that two or more may be grasped by the fingers at one time with their points extended in the same direction.

It is the object of my invention to provide a device that can be readily suspended from the shinglers body whereby the nails are automatically positioned ready for the shinglers use, and quickly and easily removable by him.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a right hand side elevation of the device.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the device.

Figure 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a section on line 44 of Figure 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 1 indicates a supporting plate provided with orifices 234 and 5, preferably in the relative positions shown.

A band is shown at 6 provided with a button at each end as at 7 and 8. This band 6 is first passed through orifice 2 from the front and is prevented from being drawn clear through by button 7 which engages the front surface of plate 1. The band is then carried around in a large loop 6 to orifice 3 through which it is passed from the rear as shown, thence passing through orifice 4 from the front and then backwardly in a wide loop 6 to orifice 5 through which it passes from the rear as shown.

The plate 1 is bevelled at its lower edge as shown at 9 and carries a pair of parallelly arranged troughs as 10 and 11 inclined to correspond with the bottom of plate 1, and closed at their lower ends as at 12 and 13 respectively. Each trough 10-11 is provided with a slot l t-l5 in its lower portion as shown, the upper ends of the slots being open as at 16-17 and the upper ends 1819 of the troughs being spaced a distance from the slots as indicated at 2021.

Serial No. 616,786.

If, now, the band 6 is arranged as described with the loop 6" passing around the users neck and the loop 6 passing around his waist, the device is firmly held in the desired position on the front of his body. A handful of shingle nails being deposited in the troughs as at 22, a number thereof will drop into the position shown at 23, the natural agitation of the device occasioned by movement of the body will nearly always suflice to keep a few nails arranged in this position. The user has merely to grasp the two or three nails needed each time by their lower portions and slide them upwardly along the groove and out at its upper end.

In this manner the desired number of nails may be obtained quickly and easily and in their proper position for driving without the so-called mouthing now almost universally employed.

It is clear from the foregoing that I have provided a device that is simple in construction, easily arranged in positionfor use, eco nomical to manufacture and highly efiicient in its practical application.

It is to be understood, of course, that while I have herein shown and described one specific embodiment of my invention, changes in form, construction and mode of operation may be made within the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A device of the character indicated comprising, a supporting plate having spaced orifices formed therein and arranged in a triangular formation, a nail stripper carried by said plate, and a flexible element engaging said orifices and forming two loops, one loop being adapted to pass around the waist of the users body and the other around the neck of the user, said element being freely movable in either direction through one of said orifices.

2. A device of the character indicated comprising a plate, a nail stripper mounted thereon, said plate having an orifice formed therein adjacent to one end of said stripper, a pair of orifices formed therein adjacent to the other end of said stripper, and an orifice formed therein a distance from said stripper, a flexible element having its ends passing through said first and third mentioned orifices and means for preventing their withdrawal therefrom, the intermediate portion of said element passing through said pair of orifices and freely movable therein whereby to form loops on either side ible element engaging each of said spaced thereof. means and slidably mounted in one of them 1 3. A device of the character indicated whereby to form two loops, one loop being comprising a supporting plate a nail strip adapted to pass around the Waist of the 5 per mounted thereon, said plate being prousers body and the other around the neck of vided With spaced means for attaching a the user. flexible element thereto, said means being arranged in triangular formation, and a flex- LIONEL E. KINGHAM. 

